Elizabeth B. Snyder

Elizabeth B. Snyder (2009)

Elizabeth B. Snyder (actually Ursula Maria Waltraud Tilch; born August 30, 1923 in Breslau ) is a German visual artist and singer.

Life

Snyder experienced his childhood in Breslau. After her family was expelled from Silesia , she spent her youth in Mistelbach . She initially worked as a journalist, then for 28 years she was a special choir singer at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. Her audiovisual and artistic work was initially limited to the local environment. It is only since 2003 that she has been addressing a broader public with her works, using the slightly changed name of an uncle who emigrated to America in order to clearly distinguish this creative phase from her commitment as a singer. She is currently dealing with a concept of art influenced by the theory of science, which is located outside of the technological aestheticism she has worked on to date. In particular, she deals with issues that go beyond the separation of natural and human sciences introduced by René Descartes . This interest culminated in 2012 working for the e-magazine Astacus astacus, where Snyder worked as editor and co-editor until volume XVI / 2019.

Concept of art

Working methodology

"MEGATOD" - A collage by Elizabeth B. Snyder in the style of Max Ernst's working method . The artist sees her task in artificially creating a meeting of alien realities on paper in order to awaken in the viewer the idea of relationships that he would not have perceived. Fantastic extrapolation and visionary hope are juxtaposed with a horror concept: The rocket types V2 and Pershing as vehicles for the atomic mega-death.

The main themes of her works, based on the techniques of the German surrealist Max Ernst, are symbolic implementations of the dangers posed to humans by technology. In an interview about her working method, she quoted Max Ernst as follows: “The technique of collage is the systematic exploitation of the coincidental meeting of non-essential realities on a piece of paper, whereby this meeting may be artificially provoked. - And that's exactly how it is with my work. The fact that I connect realities alien to each other creates a spark in the viewer of an idea of relationships that he had not perceived in this way and in this way before to undergo. These are reminiscent of the iconographic sculptures of classic Ethiopian sacred art, as it was cultivated after the building of the rock- hewn churches in Lalibela from the 13th to the 15th century.

philosophy

"ROCKETCHURCH" - It's the same culture; it used to give birth to Gothic cathedrals, today it gave birth to huge rockets: Elizabeth B. Snyder has seen the same urge at work for more than a thousand years.

The artist sees her task in systematically creating opportunities for the viewer that can awaken ideas of contexts and unexpected connections that would not have grown over him without her artistic work. She sees herself as a proponent of a humble being-in-the-world, since she is convinced of the spiritual and moral immaturity of Homo sapiens. “The link between the great apes and humans, that's us, Homo sapiens. There is still a long way to go. ”For her as a committed Catholic who actively supports the preservation of nature as a God-given human habitat in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council , space travel is the ultimate expression of a pursuit driven by technology-enthusiastic natural science after more and more, always further, always higher. “For the first time, it is only our generation that can clearly see where this striving has brought us. (...) Unfortunately, with every technical effort and innovation, our problems only get worse. We are facing ecological upheavals that also affect our children and grandchildren. At the same time, we are leaving them with nuclear waste that will still be highly dangerous for tens of thousands of years. (...) Science can tell us exactly how to build a nuclear power plant, how to keep it in operation, even what it costs. But she cannot tell us whether it is good to build a nuclear power plant. ”For this reason, Snyder pleads for intensive work on a mutual relationship between the natural sciences and the humanities in the way that Alfred North Whitehead postulated, as well as for predisciplinarity in the Hermann Schrödter's sense, in order to achieve a mature, sustainable approach to the ecosphere.

Works (exemplary selection)

"ODYSSEE" - A European Ariane rocket and the text by Homer from the 8th century BC about the return of Odysseus to Penelope. Was it Greek thought, with its search for reasons and its pursuit of provable mathematics, that led to aerospace engineering? Is the ancient idea of the "agon", of competition and contest, the trigger for our striving for more and more, more and more, more and more?

Odyssey, 1998, collage, 40 × 55
Rocketchurch, 1998, collage, 65 × 55
Sibyllen, 2003, collage, 55 × 45
Megatod, 2009, collage, 80 × 55
Täwahdo, 2011, collage, 65 × 45.

Participation in TV programs

ARD-alpha , 2003: World Power USA - Historical and Current Perspectives, 87'47 "min, in three parts.
ARD-alpha , 2004: Where is Indonesia heading? - Fears, tensions and hopes of a multiethnic state, 88'50 "min, in three parts.
BR, 2004: With the church in the village - pictures of Catholic life in Bavaria, 43'30 "min.
K-TV, 2006: Planet of Life - Bali / Java, 3'44 "min.
ARD-alpha , 2006: The Second Vatican Council: Event - Reception - Future, 59'13 "min, in two parts.
Sibyls in Hercules, 26'30 ", 2011.

literature

Thaddaios Apostolos Alexander: "The madness of earthly profit-greedy thinking" - What space travel and literature have to do with each other. Interview with Elizabeth B. Snyder , in: Perry Rhodan . 2342, Journal No. 99, supplement to Volume 43 of the Terranova series, Red .: Hartmut Kasper , Pabel-Moewig Verlag, Rastatt 2006, pp. 8-11.

Thaddaios Apostolos Alexander: Creation or Evolution? - "A superfluous argument is spreading". Interview with Elizabeth B. Snyder , in: Perry Rhodan. 2422, Journal No. 113, Supplement to Volume 23 of the Negasphäre series, Ed .: Hartmut Kasper , Pabel-Moewig Verlag, Rastatt 2008, pp. 7–9.

Philip Thoel: The nightmare of our playful future. A conversation with the artist Elizabeth B. Snyder , in: Sascha Mamczak , Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 2010 . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-52681-5 , pp. 618-632.

“The essence of science - Interview with Reinhard Genzel and Elizabeth B. Snyder” , in: Uranus. Astronomy in Augsburg # 86, Astronomische Vereinigung Augsburg e. V. , ISSN 1618-6362 , Augsburg 2014, pp. 4-11.

Notes and individual references

↑ The philosophy magazine experienced a broad impact through the use of the term Cosmologic turn by Prof. Dr. Linus Hauser in "Critique of Neomythic Reason. The fictions of science on the way into the 21st century", Schöningh , Paderborn 2016, p. 225, ISBN 978-3-506-78197-0 , and by Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch in the ARD alpha broadcast Die Welt als Schammlung, first broadcast at 7.15 p.m., June 25, 2017, at 1:15 p.m., July 2, 2017; cf.: Alexander Seibold, "A Cosmologic turn in theology. The salvation of the image of God and the plan of salvation in narration", in: Astacus astacus. Splinters on philosophy and culture VI / 2014, Cosmological turning point ?! , Pp. 33-55, ISSN 2194-7805 .
↑ Astacus astacus. Splitter on Philosophy and Culture XVI / 2019, Hagiotop - a term for interreligious dialogue? , ISSN 2194-7805 .
↑ Philip Thoel: The nightmare of our playful future. A conversation with the artist Elizabeth B. Snyder , in: Sascha Mamczak , Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 2010 . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-52681-5 , p. 619.
↑ Elizabeth B. Snyder refers in the interview excerpt reproduced here to a text quoted from memory by Konrad Lorenz ; see. Philip Thoel: The nightmare of our playful future. A conversation with the artist Elizabeth B. Snyder , in: Sascha Mamczak, Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 2010 . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-52681-5 , p. 628.
↑ Philip Thoel: The nightmare of our playful future. A conversation with the artist Elizabeth B. Snyder , in: Sascha Mamczak, Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 2010 . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-52681-5 , pp. 628f.

personal data
SURNAME	Snyder, Elizabeth B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ursula Tilch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw

[1] The philosophy magazine experienced a broad impact through the use of the term Cosmologic turn by Prof. Dr. Linus Hauser in "Critique of Neomythic Reason. The fictions of science on the way into the 21st century", Schöningh , Paderborn 2016, p. 225, ISBN 978-3-506-78197-0 , and by Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch in the ARD alpha broadcast Die Welt als Schammlung, first broadcast at 7.15 p.m., June 25, 2017, at 1:15 p.m., July 2, 2017; cf.: Alexander Seibold, "A Cosmologic turn in theology. The salvation of the image of God and the plan of salvation in narration", in: Astacus astacus. Splinters on philosophy and culture VI / 2014, Cosmological turning point ?! , Pp. 33-55, ISSN 2194-7805 .

[2] Astacus astacus. Splitter on Philosophy and Culture XVI / 2019, Hagiotop - a term for interreligious dialogue? , ISSN 2194-7805 .

[3] Philip Thoel: The nightmare of our playful future. A conversation with the artist Elizabeth B. Snyder , in: Sascha Mamczak , Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 2010 . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-52681-5 , p. 619.

[4] Elizabeth B. Snyder refers in the interview excerpt reproduced here to a text quoted from memory by Konrad Lorenz ; see. Philip Thoel: The nightmare of our playful future. A conversation with the artist Elizabeth B. Snyder , in: Sascha Mamczak, Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 2010 . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-52681-5 , p. 628.

[5] Philip Thoel: The nightmare of our playful future. A conversation with the artist Elizabeth B. Snyder , in: Sascha Mamczak, Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 2010 . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-52681-5 , pp. 628f.